Schaum's Easy Outline of Organic Chemistry, 2nd Revised edition--------------------------------------------------When you need just the essentials of organic chemistry, this Easy Outlinesbook is there to help. If you are looking for a quick nuts-and-boltsoverview of organic chemistry, it's got to be Schaum's Easy Outline.This book is a pared-down, simplified, and tightly focused versionof its Schaum's Outline cousin, with an emphasis on clarity and conciseness.Graphic elements such as sidebars, reader-alert icons, and boxed highlightsstress selected points from the text, illuminate keys to learning,and give you quick pointers to the essentials. Perfect if you havemissed class or need extra review, this title gives you expert helpfrom teachers who are authorities in their fields. So small and lightthat it fits in your backpack! Topics covered include: Structure andProperties, Reactivity and Reactions, Alkanes and Cycloalkanes, Stereochemistry,Alkenes, Alkynes, and Dienes, Alkyl Halides, Aromatic Compounds, Spectroscopyand Structure, Alcohols, Ethers, and Epoxides, Aldehydes and Ketones,Carboxylic Acids and Their Derivatives, Enolates and Enols, Amines,Amino Acids, Peptides, Proteins, Carbohydrates and Nucleic Acids Index.--------------------------------------------------Author Biography: Herbert Meislich, Ph.D. holds a B.A. from BrooklynCollege and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University. He is a professoremeritus from the City College of CUNY, where he taught Organic andGeneral Chemistry for forty years at both the undergraduate and doctoratelevels. He received the Outstanding Teacher award in 1985, and hascoauthored eight textbooks, three laboratory manuals in General andOrganic Chemistry and 15 papers on his research interests. HowardNechamkin, Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at Trenton StateCollege, for 11 years of his tenure he served as Department Chairman.His Bachelor's degree is from Brooklyn College, his Master's fromthe Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn and his Doctorate in SciencesEducation from New York University. He is the author or coauthor of53 papers and 6 books in the areas of inorganic, analytical, and environmentalchemistry. Jacob Sharefkin, Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus of Chemistryat Brooklyn College. After receiving a B.S. from City College of NewYork, he was awarded an M.A. from Columbia University and a Ph.D. fromNew York University. His publications and research interest in QualitativeOrganic Analysis and organic boron and iodine compounds have been supportedby grants from the American Chemical Society, for whom he has alsodesigned national examinations in Organic Chemistry. George J. Hademenos,Ph.D. is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics at the Universityof Dallas. He received his B.S. with a combined major of physics andchemistry from Angelo State University, his M.S. and Ph.D. in physicsfrom the University of Texas at Dallas, and completed postdoctoralfellowships in nuclear medicine at the University of MassachusettsMedical Center and in radiological sciences/biomedical physics at UCLAMedical Center. His research interests have involved biophysical andbiochemical mechanisms of disease processes, particularly cerebrovasculardiseases and stroke.